在虚拟世界中，你由虚拟的另一个自我(又名阿凡达)代表，用于社交和角色扮演。

最常被称为mmo -大规模(ly)多人在线。一些流行的例子包括《魔兽世界》、《无尽的任务》和《第二人生》。

PS:不，他们仍然不需要像80年代极客电影中典型的那样戴着沉重的帽子。真可惜....

20年前:面向对象编程——更好地处理软件复杂性。

现在:云计算——为了更好地处理硬件复杂性。

未来:说明性的东西，但它还需要20年。

我认为没有什么重要的东西被发明出来。但自80年代以来，人们对软件的看法发生了很大变化。那时有更多的理论家参与其中，现在你在一个程序员论坛上问这个问题。

当时的大多数想法都没有得到实施，或者即使实施了，它们也没有任何真正的重要性，因为当时的软件行业还不存在，市场营销、人力资源、开发阶段或alpha版本也不存在:)。

Another reason for this lack of inventions is the fact that most people use Windows:) dont get me wrong, i do hate M$, but look at it this way: you have a perfectly working interface, with nothing new to add to it, maybe just some new colored buttons. Its also closed enough so you wont be able to to anything with it without breaking it. Thats why i prefer open apps, this way you get more "open" people, to whom yo can actually talk, ask then questions, propose new ideeas that actually gets implemented, or at least put on an open todo-list, thus you get some kind of "evolution". You dont really see anything new because you are stuck with the same basic interface "invented" lots of years ago... did anyone actually tried ION window-manager in a production environment? It has a new kind of interface, and actually lets you do things faster, event it it looks quirky

M$, Adobe..you name it,holds lots of patents so you wont be able to base your work on them, or derivatives(you also wont know what kind of undeveloped tehnologies they hold). Look at MP3 and GIF as examples( i belive that they are both free formats now, but they are also kinda dead..) MP3 is the 'king' of audio evend if there are few algorithms out there much better that it..but didnt get enough traction because they weren't pushed on the consumer market. The GIF... come on, 256 colors??? From this point of voew i'm curios how many people from this thread are working on something "open" that will get to be reused in some other projects, and how many on "closed", protected by NDA's projects?

即使这听起来有点像“免费的威利”，但在80年代，软件是免费的，所有东西都有文档，所有硬件都更简单，更容易使用……同时也更加有限，所以人们并没有浪费时间去执行3d游戏或网页，而是致力于真正的算法。

I'd say the biggest trend is an ever increasing lack of location dependence and pervasiveness. An interesting philosophical exercise these days is to count the computers in you immediate area. They're everywhere desktops, keyboards, microwaves, radios, televisions, cell phones etc... My grandmother computer is illiterate however her life is as infested with small computers as everyone else's. She can make a call to me from the middle of an empty field. I can then answer that call zipping down the highway.

有效的并行化和量子计算——我认为这是两个已经取得进展的领域，而且还将取得更大的进展，从而使我们对计算能力的使用发生重大变化。

有效的并行化意味着在不需要特殊编程技术的情况下并行和分布处理，但将其内置到编译器/框架中。

数字音乐合成器。

我认为，整个音乐场景都受到了廉价复调合成器的影响。 早期的复调合成器是有效地多个模拟合成器(离散或使用CEM或SSM芯片)。它们都很昂贵，而且数量有限。在80年代，第一个数字系统出现了(我不确定，但我认为Kurzweil是第一个)。 今天，大多数都是数字的——甚至模拟的也是典型的“虚拟模拟”。

问候

编辑:哎呀-我刚刚发现CMI灯管是在1978年发明的。忘掉上面的，抱歉。